Last Friday, President Biden traveled to Pittsburgh to make a case that the American economy is on the right track andhopefully help resuscitate his collapsing popularity. But political speeches don’t change economic realities, and an honest assessment of the situation makes clear that Biden’s first year was an abject failure on the economic front. Inflation has raged for months with no end in sight, worsening Americans’ purchasing power considerably. Businesses are struggling to fill open roles as the labor shortage slows recovery. Store shelves remain empty as supply chain issues endure.
Yet Biden spent his first year ignoring these real-life crises, instead trying to push – through historically narrowcongressional majorities – a radical partisan agenda completely disconnected from real-life concerns. Americans noticed.
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